How to Make Fake Stained Glass Solvents
Creating stained glass at home can be as simple as making cookies. By framing and bordering the stained glass in cookie dough, you can fill the space with hard candy. The sugary candy melts when you expose it to prolonged, intense heat. The melted candy will liquefy and form a substance that resembles the colored portion of stained glass. Using candy eliminates the need for a translucent surface and colored solvents altogether. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Prepared cookie dough
- Colored hard candy
- Heavy-duty plastic food storage bag
- Mallet or rolling pin
- Small bowls (one for each color candy)
- Granulated sugar
- Food coloring
- Spoon
- Toothpick or skewer
- Clear varnish
Instructions
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Set the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit to preheat.
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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Form a narrow border with cookie dough in the shape you want your stained glass ornament to be. Shape the border to be roughly 1/4-inch thick for ornaments under 6 inches wide. Increase the size and thickness of the dough frame incrementally for larger stained glass pieces.
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Form narrow cookie dough borders within the primary cookie dough frame, if you want multiple colors of stained glass to create the ornament. Each interior border must be a straight line that connects, at both ends, to the primary border.
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Place one color of candy in a zipper-seal plastic bag. Squeeze out excess air as you seal the bag. Crush the candy with a mallet or rolling pin. Pour each color of crushed candy in a separate bowl. An alternative to colored candy is to color granulated sugar with food coloring. Place each color of sugar into a different bowl.
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Spoon the crushed candy or colored sugar into an enclosed pane on the baking sheet. Spread the material with your finger, to fill the pane evenly.
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Place the baking sheet in the oven. Bake the cookies for 15 to 18 minutes. The candy should melt and run, filling the window with in an even layer. Remove the pan from the oven.
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Poke a hold in the outermost border with a toothpick or skewer. Run string through the hole to hang the ornament, if desired.
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Allow the cookies to cool to room temperature to harden the colored "glass."
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Tips & Warnings
Eat the stained glass or use it as a decoration.
To use the ornaments as decoration, spray both sides with two coats of clear varnish. This will seal the ornaments and keeps pets and bugs uninterested.
References
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